Ladies of the Army

The War Department last week picked a female press agent: Mrs. William Pettus Hobby, wife of the publisher of the Houston (Tex.) Post. Her job: to head a new Women's Division of the Army's Bureau of Public Relations.

No sob sister is slight, 35-year-old, soft-spoken Oveta Gulp Hobby. She is used to getting things done. Executive vice president and assistant editor of the Houston Post, she was a director of the Cleburne National Bank.

Taking over in Room 2840 of the War Department Building on the day she was appointed, Mrs. Hobby announced that she was going to assemble a staff of female reporters to write Army news for the women's pages, to tell women (estimated at four for every one of the 1,500,000 men in the Army) about their sons', husbands', sweethearts', brothers', fathers' health, discipline, food, clothing, entertainment. Says she: "This is the public's Army, the nation's Army, and the women have as much interest in it as the men." Husband William Hobby (Governor of Texas in 1917-21), 18 years her senior, remains in Texas to run the Post.

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